“On Sunday morning, we detected a cybersecurity incident that is impacting the majority of our IT systems,”
Ace runs 1,400 servers and 3,500 networked devices. The attack hit 1,202 of them, including 196 servers. Warehouse management, retailer ordering, rewards and the call center went down together, and stores were told to stop placing orders. The CEO calls the attackers thugs in a battle of good versus evil. Good versus evil doesn’t explain how one weekend took out most of a $9 billion company’s IT systems.